In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Edouard Morena, a lecturer at the University of London Institute in Paris, examines the role of climate philanthropy after the Paris Agreement....

Long cherished, philanthropic freedom isn't guaranteed, and the growing number of direct and indirect attacks on this hallmark of civil society in the U.S. is cause for concern, writes the Philanthropy Roundtable's Joanne Florino....

The problem with philanthropy, argues Linsey McGoey in the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, is not that it's too powerful, but that certain voices within the sector are too powerful within it....

The founder and executive director of 350.org, which works to raise awareness of the need to reduce carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million, explains why the movement needs the support of "big philanthropy"....

The fossil fuel era is winding down but the transition to a zero-carbon economy is being obstructed by fossil fuel companies. Philanthropy can, and must, lead the way to a clean-energy future, write three leaders of the divest-invest movement....

To meet the targets set by the Paris Agreement, a radical shift in corporate behavior is needed, argues Mark O'Kelly, head of finance and administration at the Barrow Cadbury Trust....

Allowing more migration to wealthy countries is one of the most powerful strategies for reducing global poverty. The Open Philanthropy Project's Alexander Berger shares some ideas about how foundations can help....

The Barrow Cadbury Trust's Ayesha Saran suggests that philanthropy's greatest opportunity in responding to the refugee crisis in Europe may be in treating the crisis not as a discrete event but as part of a wider effort to create more just and equal societies....

The Sustainable Development Goals will require governments to rethink how they collect and allocate funds, and how private investors and businesses must reorient their practices toward positive social and environmental impacts....

Because the Sustainable Development Goals focus as much on what we must achieve as on how we go about it, the development agenda enables new possibilities for collaboration across sectors and borders, writes the Dasra Girl Alliance's Rachita Vora....

In the latest installment in our Alliance@PND series, Barry Knight, director of the Webb Memorial Trust, shares results from a survey of foundations in twenty-four countries aimed at gauging grantmaker interest in the Sustainable Development Goals....

Robust data systems will be fundamental to ensuring global adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, and philanthropy can help jump-start that process, says Foundation Center vice president for research Larry McGill....

Andrew Milner talks to young donors from Brazil, Switzerland, Ghana, Mexico, Lebanon, and Singapore about the differences between their philanthropic priorities and those of their parents....

In our latest Alliance@PND installment, Jason Franklin, W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, reviews six recent trends in American philanthropy and considers their long-term implications....

Pennington, vice president of the Ford Foundation's Education, Creativity, and Free Expression program, talks with Caroline Hartnell about Ford's new focus on inequality and its commitment to provide more general operating support.... 

Rita Allen Foundation president Elizabeth Christopherson writes in our latest installment of Alliance@PND about the potential of digitally-linked communities to participate creatively and effectively in civic change....

Before he took the helm of Italy's Cariplo Foundation, Urbani headed one of its grantee organizations. In an interview with Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell, Urbani describes his vision for how the foundation's work and image should be developed....

The latest installment of our Alliance@PND series describes the steps nonprofit social lender Root Capital took to build a constituent voice program....